Klarinet Archive - Posting 000911.txt from 2004/03

From: "Don" <dwh46@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:15:33 -0500

It's likely because many teenagers and even twenty and thirty-somethings
can't perform simple math functions without mechanical help. In the mid
seventies when Texas Instruments was producing their "high-tech"
calculators, the instructors at the college I attended would allow their use
in class, but when exam time rolled around - no calculators. And I have
always insisted my son, now seventeen, be able to prove to me he can do his
math problems with paper and pencil, he never knows when a pop quiz is
coming.

But in the case of children like Ormondtoby's daughter, I agree that the
rules have to be different. It is a shame that government has to involve
itself in our education system in such a clueless yet obviously self-serving
way again, at the expense of those least able to defend themselves.

Don

> (By the way, fast food restaurants insist that all employees use the
> cash register to calculate the proper change for any purchase.)

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